Schools Pressure Student Journalists, Advisors

Public records obtained by 404 Media show US school and university administrators pressuring student newsrooms and their advisors over reporting on Epstein, Gaza and LGBTQ+ issues. The Student Press Law Center fielded nearly 1,000 hotline inquiries from 46 states and Washington D.C. in 2025, with censorship questions up 17 percent year over year. Advisors have been reassigned or pushed out.